MAT128: Calculus A

• Syllabus
• Assignments
• Learning Objectives
• Office hours:
  • M 2-3
  • W 2-3, 4:50-5:30
  • TR 12:15-3
• The Math & Stat Lab is available for tutoring (with a mix of in-person and virtual). Something to consider. It's free, and features a bunch of our best math/stat majors.
• Daily Agendas/Summaries

  Chapter 1: Day 1: Welcome! Day 2: Linear things Day 3: Section 1.1: Rates of Change (velocity) Day 4: Section 1.1 (cont.) Day 5: Snow day! Day 6: Section 1.2 Day 7: Section 1.3: Derivative at a point Day 8: Section 1.3, cont. Day 9: Section 1.4: the Derivative Function Day 10: Section 1.4, cont. Day 11: Exam 1 Day 12: Section 1.4, finish Day 13: Section 1.5 Day 14: Section 1.5, cont. Day 15: Section 1.6: the Second Derivative Day 16: Section 1.6, cont. Day 17: Section 1.8: local linearization Day 18: Section 1.8, cont.

  Chapter 2: Day 19: New rules... Day 20: More new rules... Day 21: The Quotient rule Day 22: Review Day 23: Exam 2 Day 24: Trig rules Day 25: More trig rules Day 26: The Chain rule Day 27: More Chains Day 28: Last Chains Day 29: Inverse Functions Day 30: Inverse Trig Functions Day 31: Implicit differentiation Day 32: Implicit examples Day 33: Using derivatives to compute limits Day 34: Review Day 35: Exam 3

  Chapter 3: Day 36: Extrema Day 37: 1st and 2nd derivative tests Day 38: More Extrema Day 39: Global Extrema Day 40: Story Problems... Day 41: Elvis and Linear Regression Day 42: More optimization Day 43: Related Rates Day 44: Review

Links:

• Our free, on-line textbook, called Active Calculus.
• Our free, on-line homework system, called WebWork.
• Desmos
• Wolfram Alpha
• Mathematica: I'll occasionally use Mathematica in class (for lectures), and you may want to use it on your homework, whenever possible and convenient and allowed. You can get a personal student copy as an NKU student by following the directions for "Student Download".
• GeoGebra demos for calculus (and a local copy)
• Graphs for Calculus Class
• 3Blue1Brown's calculus related videos
• Gil Strang's "Highlights of Calculus"
• 3Blue1Brown's calculus related videos
• Local copy of the Calculus Applets using GeoGebra project

  The author, Marc Renault, offered these under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Notes:

• Feel free to email me with your questions.
• Taking tests in my classes
• Suggestions for the NKU Math/CS student
• Free tutoring for NKU students is available from the math center at Learning PLUS.